Motivating employees

Figure 9 Stages of OB Modification
Job Design
Many of us assume that the most important motivator at work would be pay. Yet, studies point to a different factor as the major influence over worker motivation: Job design. How a job is designed has a major impact on employee motivation, job satisfaction, commitment to organization, as well as absenteeism and turnover. Job design is just one of the many organizational design decisions managers must make when engaged in the organizing function.
The question of how to properly design jobs so that employees are more productive

and more satisfied has received managerial and research attention since the beginning of the 20th century.